Maia Express 1

Maia Express 1, also branded as Maia Express : The Road Up North, is the first season of the Lussantian adventure game show Maia Express. The season premiered on 2 May 2015. 8 teams of two participated in this season, in order to win up to ₾100,000. The season was sponsored by the retailer Colussa and the fast-food chain Windens. Daria Kinzer hosted the show.

Candidates
Cecilia (32) & Magda (32) are childhood friends from Sankt-Luther-Zeuwart, Tuskia. Having met in kindergarten, they spent their whole life together since then. Cecilia is single and works as a secretary for a local business. Magda is engaged and she, as well as her boyfriend, work in a sport hall. They wanted to live an adventure together.

Hanan (32) & Tabatha (21) are sisters from Matildefjord in Lazanistan. Hanan is a lawyer, and Tabatha works as a dancer. The latter starred in numberous burlesque shows since she reached the majority. They wanted to participate to admire new sights and know a lot of new people.

Kristian (30) & Aina (29) are a couple of newlyweds from Miiela, Määrhimaa. Kristian is a restaurant waiter and Aina is a translator. They are participating in the show to live new adventures, and to meet the locals.

Lenka (40) & Mikuláš (35) are co-workers from Vltaha, Slavania. She works as an air hostess, and he works as a steward. They both work for Lussantian Airways and they frequently share the same flights. They wanted to participate together to see even more of Maia.

Raymond (60) & Rémy (25) are the members of another Nordenian family, residing in Pierrance. Raymond, a retired policeman, decided to go on Maia Express with his nephew, Rémy, an assistant veterinary. Raymond wanted to go to prove that being 60 years old does not preventing him from doing great things. Both of them want to win.

Sebastian "Seb" (28) & Markus "Mark" (28) are a couple from Leidenau, Tuskia. Due to being homosexual since their teenage years, both of them, coming from conservative rural areas, experienced discrimination. They met in the National University of Tuskia in 2010, where they were both students in social service. Since then, they have both graduated and are both social workers. They married in 2013. They wanted to participate to live big things.

Suzanne (54) & Thomas (20) are members of an average middle-class family residing in Nouveaupont, Nordenia. Suzanne, the mother of Thomas, works as a cashier for the local Colussa superstore, while Thomas is currently studying medicine, in order to got his degree and follow a formation to be a doctor. They decided to take part in the show to get out of their country a bit, and to live awesome moments.

Dorotheos (35) is a geography teacher working in Kes, Arias Isles. He will have to share his adventure with Solfrid (31), a stylist from Lungers, Tuskia.

Results

 * The team who comes 1st in each stage wins an amulet (₾7,000). If it gets eliminated, the team who receives their amulets are indicated in bold characters.
 * A result in red means that the team has been eliminated. If it is underlined, it means that the team withdrew.
 * A result in underlined blue means that the team came last in a non-eliminatory stage, and had to carry a disadvantage during the next stage.
 * A result in grey means that the team returned to the race after the withdrawal of a team.
 * A result in underlined black means that the team arrived to the final checkpoint with the black flag.
 * A result in green means that the team won the immunity challenge.
 * A result in italic green means that a team won an immunity challenge, was exempted from the rest of the stage, in a special stage where there was no amulet.
 * A result with an orange B means that the team won the bonus of this stage, and thus wasn't ranked at the end of this stage.
 * A result in purple means that this team had the red flag.

Different stages

 * Stages in 
 * 1st stage : Uutregha → Senk
 * 2nd stage : Levard → Flevv → Asta
 * 3rd stage : Hage → Tilberj → Bosce
 * Stages in 
 * 4th stage : Nýstad → Frjálköping → Söderyio
 * 5th stage : Vøstfjord → Hemslavii → Ragnarhelm
 * 6th stage : Ny Sjöa → Femhagen → Farsknordi
 * 7th stage : Farsknordi
 * Stage in 
 * 8th stage : Lashia
 * Stages in 
 * 9th stage : Ugli → Harrinistan → Nibro
 * 10th stage : Spugnosh → Haunik → Stekkhylm
 * 11th stage : Stekkhylm → Bülsta → Pojkland
 * 12th stage : Pojkland

The black flag
The black flag is given to a team who must do everything to get rid of it by passing it on to another team. However, the team cannot pass it on to the team who gave the black flag to them beforehand. The team arriving at the final checkpoint with the black flag is pushed down one place in the final ranking.

The black envelope
At each start of a stage, the team arrived in 1st position last stage is given the black envelope, which decides if a stage is eliminatory or not. The team must keep it closed and not lose it at all costs. If the stage is non-eliminatory, the team which came last will have to carry a disadvantage during the next stage.

The red flag
The red flag gives to the team who has it the power to stop other teams during 15 minutes, as much as they desire.